nichola feldman-kiss is an artist researching corporeality, identity, and autobiography. Their process-rich practice is a relational exploration of body and embodiment, witness and traumatic memory, statelessness and belonging, empathy and collectivity. feldman-kiss’ hybrid media installations – pristine as laboratory craft – critique the colonial paradigm (the violent ingestion of land, resources, peoples and cultures), and ask us to reconsider difficult questions about what it means to be conscious social bodies in the contemporary moment. The exhibition, which includes photography, audio, video, digital and performance interventions, lays bare the entanglements of the globalized order that insist rights onto some, while withholding the same entitlements from others. Scapegoat is a provocation and an elegy, attending to generational traumas through dignity and defiance.

nichola feldman-kiss is a first-generation Canadian artist of the Caribbean, African, European and Jewish diaspora. The artist’s art and technology innovations and institutional interventions have been hosted by the National Research Council of Canada, the Ottawa Hospital Eye Institute, the Department of National Defense, and the United Nations, among others and have been presented nationally and internationally. feldman-kiss holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and currently lives and works in Toronto.

Image: nichola feldman-kiss, [detail] An initial aversion to the plight of the sufferer (Scapegoat) Sydné. 18 Duratransparency chromogenic digital prints, plastics, backlight, electronics, sapele frames. 32” x 48” x 3.5” each, 2015 – 2019. Courtesy of the Artist.

The museum and the artist acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.